"Getting latest release" takes a very long time on repos with many releases

[jessebye]

On a repo with many (1,955) releases, we observed the getting latest release step taking almost 4 minutes:

Wed, 29 May 2024 19:05:19 GMT [go-semantic-release]: getting latest release...
Wed, 29 May 2024 19:09:08 GMT [go-semantic-release]: found version: 3.0.2

I believe this happens because the calling code in semantic-release calls GetReleases with no matchRegex and ends up fetching every release that has ever been created.

I'm not sure why this is necessary, but if it could retrieve less releases then this step could be much faster. For example, retrieving the last 30 releases only takes about 2 seconds...

[christophwitzko]

Hi @jessebye, yes, you are right. This case should be handled better. I have to think a bit more about how we can solve this in a non-breaking manner because, currently, semantic-release needs all tags to find the latest release.